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Scientists believe that coronavirus recovery is likely to leave a person with some immunity, but it is not clear how strong it is or how long it will last. Re-immunity is the idea that a disease ceases to spread once a population becomes immune – and is appealing because, in …

Credit: University of Sheffield Radiocarbon dating is set to become more accurate than ever after an international team of scientists improved the technique for assessing the age of historical objects. The team of researchers at the universities of Sheffield, Belfast, Bristol, Glasgow, Oxford, St Andrews and Historic England, plus international …

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A smooth movement of nitrogen has brought the world one step closer to making a range of useful products – from dyes to pharmaceuticals – from thin air. The discovery comes from a team of Yale chemists who found a way to combine atmospheric nitrogen with …

Big Ten football has been canceled for the fall, and public enemy No. 1 seems to be an unrelenting underdog: myocarditis. Within days of reports spreading to mainstream media about the risk of possible heartbeat following COVID-19 infections, the university football world has been turned upside down. But, is this …

Cindy Wang’s entire life is on WeChat. Through the Chinese Everything app, the 24-year-old shops for clothes and sends photos and audio messages to her grandparents in Guangzhou. It’s how she planned appointments with her hairstylist and where she found her bao supplier – a local woman who sells the …